Family father who protested against the blackouts in Cuba faces judgment for «instigation of crime and attack»

The police authorities concluded the investigation phase of the criminal proceedings followed against Nelson Caballero Díaz, a father accused of instigation of crime and attack, after starring in a protest against the blackouts in the town of Jimaguayú, in the province of Camagüey.

Caballero Díaz, has been arrested for 113 days after, on October 18, it was arrested with violence and held in a police unit of the provincial capital. A week later, the Prosecutor’s Office ordered provisional imprisonment in the Red Ceramics prison.

His «crime»? Publicly protest against more than 15 hours of blackout.

The peaceful protest, which included cacerolazos and slogans with other neighbors, was drowned by the authorities of the people, supported by police forces.

“There is still in red ceramics. They don’t tell him anything and they don’t tell us anything to us. They have it waiting for them to make the trial. They had told us that what he did was a fine or (limited freedom) of work to the house, but we do not know if they are going to release it, ”said his wife, Daimara Aliaga.

According to Aliaga, the lawyer denied that the 24 -year -old was entitled to a change of precautionary measure because he made resistance to arrest.

«Nelson’s papers are already in the prosecution, almost a month ago, but they have not yet said the day of judgment.»

Nor does he have the tax request, which is why he does not know the time that he could carry the crimes of those who accuse him.

«They put an attack that neither he nor we know why,» said the woman, remembering that on October 19, a day after the apprehension of her husband, an officer of the Ministry of Interior (Minint), instructor of the case, She informed her, on the phone, that her husband was admitted to the area of ​​surgery of the town hospital, where she underwent medical exams due to blows she received.

The crime of attack on authority in Cuba is punished with deprivation of liberty between one month and a year to which he uses force or intimidation against a public official or his assistant.

The Prisoners Defonders organization denounced before the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Pacific Meeting and the United Nations Association, which in the last three months of 2024 48 Cubans were imprisoned, 71% of them «civilians arrested in peaceful demonstrations» in claim of the restoration of the electric fluid.